By ISRAEL TODAY— With the third biannual Christ at the Checkpoint conference just a week away, a majority of Israeli Messianic Jews continue to find the event too politically-charged and too undergirded by anti-Semitic themes to be taken seriously as a platform for reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, and between Jewish and Arab believers. While…
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— What a wasted opportunity. Sunday’s prayer rally, which brought hundreds of thousands of haredim into the streets of Jerusalem, had all the makings of an historic event. To begin with, it was one of the largest Jewish prayer services to take place since the Second Temple once stood nearly two millennia…
By HERB KEINON, JPOST— When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu meets US President Barack Obama in the White House on Monday, he will be meeting a president preoccupied with the Ukrainian crisis, a crisis that some have called the most dangerous situation in Europe since the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Israel has no dog in…
By ISRAEL HAYOM— As the world follows events in the Crimean peninsula, the local Jewish community has its own reason to worry — on Friday, vandals sprayed swastikas and graffiti reading “Death to the Jews” on a synagogue in Simferopol. “There is no doubt that it was important to anti-Semites to commit this crime,” said…
By NIC ROBERTSON and TALAL ABU RAHMA, CNN— When Jwdat Abu Ghrb spotted a dark shape last summer in the waters off Gaza, where he was diving for fish, he initially thought it was a corpse. “I was afraid,” he told CNN. “I put on my goggles, dove underneath and still couldn’t tell what it…
“I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.” —David Livingstone, Explorer and Medical Missionary in the 19th century
By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— The Arab League will hold an emergency session on Wednesday in the wake of the Knesset discussion on the Temple Mount, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reports. According to the report, the Palestinian Authority (PA) submitted a request to the Arab League to hold the session, in order to discuss…
By LAHAV HARKOV and DANIEL EISENBUD, JPOST— The State of Israel is pointless without the Temple Mount, MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud Beytenu) said at the first-ever plenum discussion of Israeli sovereignty over the holy site on Tuesday. The debate came on the same day as the latest in a series of rioting on the Mount…
By GIL RONEN, ARUTZ7 — Ukraine’s Jews report attacks, threats accompanying current rebellion are getting worse, ask for Israeli security personnel.— In the face of increasing hostility toward Jews throughout the Ukraine, the Director of the Federation of Jewish Organizations in Europe, Rabbi Menahem Margolin, has asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe…
